
Debbie Loakes
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Debbie Loakes
@debbie_dloa
Unimelb. (Socio)phonetician, regional variation, Englishes in Australia. secretary of ASSTA (speech science). Lecturer IAP and ESL













New episode! @AdamCSchembri answers all our signed language questions. becauselanguage.com/102-signed-lan… There’s also a video of just the chat with Adam, with Auslan interpretation by @ChristyFilipich youtu.be/GcV0218VJ2k And we’re joined by @tmarke. On your listening app now.



The 2024 Michael Clyne Prize for the most outstanding postgraduate research thesis in immigrant bilingualism and language contact (awarded jointly with Australian Linguistic Society) has been awarded to Dr Suzanne Grasso (Monash University) for her doctoral thesis.

Submit your 300 word abstracts for the AusEng forum, held on August 30 at La Trobe Univ. and online. See here for free registration, and abstract submission info: sites.google.com/view/auseng/ho… Keynote speaker @felicitymcox supported by the School of Languages and Linguistics.





Apply for MARCS Anne Cutler International Visiting Fellowship 2025 today! Applications close 21 Jun, AEST. Know someone suitable? Share this post! #Linguistics #Language #Psychology #Academics #Research ✨ More info: tinyurl.com/4xx8y788


Here at Language-on-the-Move HQ we are starting the week with a chat about why #linguistics is so much fun 😃 @BrynnLinguist @MQLinguistics and @GretchenAMcC @lingthusiasm chat about #language change online Make sure you don't miss out and tune in at languageonthemove.com/because-intern…


